Re-inventing the ship
Subtitle: science, technology and the maritime world, 1800-1918
By: Don Leggett and Richard Dunn
Contributors: Dunn, Richard, 1966-
Series: Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies series
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Co.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781409418498; 9781409418504
Subjects: Ships; Shipbuilding; Shipping; History
Description: "Ships have histories that are interwoven with the human fabric of the maritime world. In the long nineteenth century these histories revolved around the re-invention of these once familiar objects in a period in which Britain became a major maritime power. This multi-disciplinary volume deploys different historical, geographical, cultural and literary perspectives to examine this transformation and to offer a series of interconnected considerations of maritime technology and culture in a period of significant and lasting change. Its ten authors reveal the processes involved through the eyes and hands of a range of actors, including naval architects, dockyard workers, commercial shipowners and Navy officers. By locating the ship's re-invention within the contexts of builders, owners and users, they illustrate the ways in which material elements, as well as scientific, artisan and seafaring ideas and practices, were bound together in the construction of ships' complex identities."--from Amazon.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.